Obfuscation

Why do we need 1,013 pages for a healthcare bill? Maybe for the same reason we need to hurry up & pass the bill yesterday, before there is opportunity to debate and improve it. The more that is in the bill, the more you can get passed what couldn't stand on its own.

If you can frame the argument as opposition to this bill is equal to opposition to healthcare reform, while putting everything you could possibly want, but never get passed on its own in that bill, the better your chance of getting things passed that the American people would never allow if they knew they had a choice.

Why not pass those provisions in the bill we can agree on, see how it works and go from there?